Orbited

Definition

or /ↄ:(r) / conj ၁။ သို႔မဟုတ္။ Is it green or blue? ❍ Are you coming or not? ❍ Is the baby a boy or a girl? Compare EITHER … OR… ၂။ သို႔မဟုတ္။ ျဖစ္ေစ…ျဖစ္ေစ။ I'd like it to be black, (or) white or grey. ၃။ သို႔မဟုတ္။ Turn the heat down or the cake will burn. Compare OR ELSE (ELSE) ၄။ ျဖစ္ေစ … ျဖစ္ေစ။ ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း … ေသာ္ လည္းေကာင္း။ He can't read or write. ❍ They never dance or sing. Compare NEITHER … NOR… ၅။ သို႔မဟုတ္။ ဒါမွမဟုတ္။ He drank six or seven pints of beer. ❍ It was the third or fourth time I'd tried it. ၆။ (က) သို႔မဟုတ္။ တစ္နည္းအားျဖင့္။ geology, or the science of the earth's crust ❍ It weighs a kilo, or just over two pounds. (ခ) သို႔မဟုတ္ပါက။ ဒါမွမဟုတ္လွ်င္လည္း။ He was obviously lying—or was he? ❏ or somebody/something/somewhere; somebody/something/somewhere or other [ IDM ] ( infml ) (မေသခ်ာ မေရရာသည့္အခါ သံုးသည္။ ) …ဆိုလားပဲ၊ …ဆိုပါစို႔။ He's a factory supervisor or something. ❍‘Who told you?’ ‘Oh, somebody or other, I've forgotten who. ’ ❍ It's somewhere or other in the kitchen. -or suff ( with vs forming ns ) (ျပဳလုပ္သူ၊ အရာဟု ေပါေသာ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ actor ❍ governor ❍ resistor. Compare -EE, -ER

Examples

1. Which colour do you want – red
2. green
3. yellow
4. or blue?
5. He’s probably at lunch or in a meeting.
6. [either... or] : ‘When will you get the results?’ ‘Either tomorrow or the day after.’
7. [whether... or] : You don’t care whether he lives or dies
8. do you?
9. [or not] : The jury must decide whether the prisoner is guilty or not.
10. She’s had nothing to eat or drink all day.
11. I never had any help or advice from my parents.
12. [one or two/two or three/three or four etc] : I can photocopy your notes. It’ll only take a minute or two.
13. The car has to be serviced every five or six thousand miles.
14. The soldiers told everyone to leave or they would be shot.
15. [or else] : We must deal with the problem now
16. or else it will be too late.
17. You’d better do what I say
18. or else (=I will do something bad to you).
19. There are six cashpoints
20. or ATMs
21. in the main airport terminal.
22. [or rather] : This is a problem for the government
23. or rather for the Prime Minister
24. to deal with.
25. He obviously doesn’t have a plan
26. or he would have said something.
27. [or else] : It must be something serious
28. or else they wouldn’t have radioed for help.